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TN investment, promised jobs don't add up
2013-06-30 13:11:55| Chemicals - Topix.net
Gov. Bill Haslam's administration has touted its ability to give taxpayers more bang for their buck when it comes to economic development by leveraging increasingly smaller grants for projects that promise more jobs than deals under previous governors.
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Promised Land review
2013-04-21 01:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Adapted by John Krasinski and Matt Damon from a story by the prolific novelist, journalist and editor Dave Eggers, Promised Land is a soft-centred drama starring Damon as Steve Butler, a smooth-talking salesman out to cheat country folk of the same stock as himself. He's employed by an oil company to persuade a small midwestern town to sell the drilling rights to their land. The dirt-poor, rust-belt town is in terminal decline, but the windfall will involve fracking for shale oil that could result...
Promised Land first look review
2013-02-08 17:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Here is an entertaining anti-corporate thriller directed by Gus Van Sant, very much in the mainstream-activist mode that gave us Milk and Good Will Hunting (rather than, say, the avant-gardist who directed Gerry and Paranoid Park, or the fey trendoid who brought us Restless or Last Days). The star is Matt Damon, who of course gained rather more than simply acting chops by co-scripting and producing Good Will Hunting (along with Ben Affleck, and look where he's ended up). Damon has produced this one...
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Panned And Criticized, Damons Promised Land Still Has Potential To Influence
2013-01-16 08:55:00| OGI
For decades, issue movies have swayed public and lawmakers decisions.
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What Promised Land Doesnt Mention
2013-01-07 13:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Promised Land, the new movie starring Matt Damon, is a movie in part about fracking, the new and extremely problematic way of getting natural gas out of shale rock far below the earths surface. Its a very good movie, with good acting, particularly by Damon in a very different role than, for example, his Jason Bourne trilogy. Instead of being a kick-ass former CIA assassin on a mission to reclaim his memory and the truth about what was done to him, in Promised Land Damon is a conflicted, conscience-stricken,...
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